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The Impact of Rainfall on Rice Output in Indonesia
Levine, David I. - 2014
We estimate the impact of weather variation on agricultural output in Indonesia by examining the impact of local rainfall shocks on rice output at the district level. Our analysis makes use of local meteorological data on rainfall in combination with government administrative data on...
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Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam
Edmonds, Eric - 2002
of children. Using a panel of Vietnamese households, we find that reductions in child labor are increasing with rice …
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Hoard Behavior and Commodity Bubbles
Hong, Harrison - 2015
Hoarding by large speculators is often blamed for contributing to commodity market panics and bubbles. Using supermarket scanner data on US household purchases during the 2008 Rice Bubble, we show that hoarding is in fact more systemic, affecting even households who have no resale motive. Export...
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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2006
peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …
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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome
De Arcangelis, Giuseppe - 2015
to directly pay remittances to schools in the Philippines. We find this take-up is largely driven by a response to the …This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a …
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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to exchange rate shocks. The initial shock to migrant income is magnified …
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Economics and Politics of Rice Policy in Japan : A Perspective on the Uruguay Round
Hayami, Yujiro - 1995
This paper reviews the recent problems of the opening of Japan's rice market and evaluates the Japanese government's rice policy from both an economic and political viewpoint. The Japanese government made strenuous resistance to the opening of Japan's rice market during the negotiations on...
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The Phillips Curve is Back? Using Panel Data to Analyze the Relationship Between Unemployment and Inflation in an Open Economy
DiNardo, John - 1999
panel data to estimate the textbook 'expectations augmented' Phillips curve with a market-based and observable measure of … inflation expectations. We develop this measure using assumptions common in economic analysis of open economies. Using quarterly …
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Profitability of Fertilizer : Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali
Beaman, Lori A. - 2013
In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor. This highlights that farmers respond to an...
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Subsidy Policies and Insurance Demand
Cai, Jing - 2016
Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately zero take-up rate at market price. This has led governments and donors to provide subsidies to increase take-up, with the concern of trying to limit their cost. In this study,...
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